Appeal No. 1999-1598
Application 08/668,656
based on the content of the table, which is said to be unlike
the claimed field range limitation (Br6).
The Examiner responds by referring to the Browse Table
command, Open View Diagram command, and Show Fixup Log command
(EA5-6). These commands are discussed at column 4,
lines 45-52. However, since we fail to see the relevance of
these commands to the limitation at issue, we do not discuss
this further.
We agree with the Examiner that Rothfield teaches the
step of designating a sequence of data operations on a
designated field range of data records in a data file. The
user designates which fields of the input data table will be
used as input to the data operations. For example, in the
Aggregate operation of Fig. 4, the user can designate which
fields of the input table 2a (having the name Employees 4a) of
Fig. 2 are grouped for the aggregate operation. These fields
are one or more data records of the table data file. For
example, in Fig. 4, the field REPORTING_DEPT_NUMBER has been
selected to group information and the field AVG SALARY has
been selected as the data to aggregate. Claim 1 does not
recite specifying a field name and field length, wherein the
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